You're right. When the goal of your hardware is to be robust and scaleable would you really trust the new kid on the block with it? AMD makes fine products but the maturity level just isnt there in the hammer line, it hasnt been proven in any environment let alone one which demands as much as sun's market does.
Agreed. We're disproportionaly favoring cpu when the real gains would be seen in high speed interconnects especially with storage devices. Most of my cpu's time is spent waiting for instructions and even when sent could stand to recieve them both faster and in greater numbers.
I'm a dialup user, and I run exim from my debian machine to send mail. Of course I'm rbl'd from sf lists which makes a ton of sense. Feh. I can understand wanting to lock things down but there's no point in being a nazi about it. This isnt really related directly to spam but it's under the same umbrella.
Sacrifice is a good example of an rts that broke out of the niche mold of traditional c&c/starcraft type rts's. It still maintains a unique rts feel though, along with an rpg and open ending element thrown in. It was somewhat overlooked when it came out but I think it was a pretty groundbreaking game. Resource mangement was downplayed but still there the focus was more on action and the unit behavior reminds me of shogun: total war. The cinematics and graphics were much advanced as well compared to other rts's.
I agree with that stance more than any other, support open standards and the rest will fall into place. Interoperability in the long run will be governed by how well open standards are supported. Well designed, well planned, more secure openly built upon systems.
Preferably a co-author will edit things like this:
Without the ability to separate the texturing from the geometry, you can't clip any geometry in a general way (not even mentioning the fact that clipping a curve along anything but an isoparm will raise it's order), and you either live with texel density varying wildly and degenerating to points, or you have texture seams between every change in density. No ability to rotate a texture on a surface, project a texture across multiple surfaces, etc. You can't replace the generality if a triangle with primitives like that.
Hopefully it can be translated into english. Before my head explodes...
I agree with this, as debian is not a corporately controled entity there is no incentive for them to make money, only to create a distro people wish to use. dpkg is a mature solution though it could be better in many ways just as rpm. Either way they'll have to pry my deb's from my cold dead fingers or demonstrate that rpm has come at least as far as deb's and apt.
Word has it (if you install grub as an option) redhat 7.2 sports a nice looking background image in the os selection screen. But I'm a debian user so I wouldnt know. (tee hee)
Wouldnt it be cool if lego made actual tools that werent marketed towards kids. Such that they would be designed to do things of this nature, all purpose reusable engineering kits. Not that I'm too cool for lego's or anything...
Or just create your own deb mirror for your network and have 350 machines sync to it auto-magically and use a pilot machine to test updates. Then all you have to do is manage your master mirror since all it's subordinates would be identical, or nearly identical in theory. Export current package information with various permutations of dpkg and mangle it so it looks pretty on the intranet. Granted this is probably more difficult than paying redhat to do it for you but in the long run it's probably more cost effective. Wasn't progeny supposed to be doing something along these lines with NOW (network of workstations)?
Exactly. It's the choice of being given $1000 today or $1 a day for the rest of your life. Though the single dollar may be less attractive now but in the end it's the smarter choice.
Light up all the dark fiber in the US, problem solved... for a while. Seriously though imagine all the cool technology that would come out of having tons and tons of bandwidth.
it's different in q3a though the rail actually takes skill in timing and aim to use so those who are good at it deserve their "rail whore" titles. Picking a guy off from across the map in UT is trivial where as it's not so easy in q3 probably due to dynamics in aiming. UT lets you get on top of the guy, quake will too but it becomes more difficult to aim as zoom increases. Most people I know use only minor zoom increments in quake 3 for this reason.
If it's the standard because it's simply widely in use, sort of like that other operating system thats the poorest of reasons. I really dont want to get into why the lsb chose rpm though. All I know is we have a chance to do things the right way this time, if that means re-inventing the wheel ten times I'd be happy to wait if when it's finished it's the best wheel to date. There's nothing like the disatisfaction of knowing you did something half-assed. I can understand if the skill level of those creating the software is a limiting factor to the quality of the end product but I get the distinct impression that these guys know what they're doing.
Writing a new packaging tool from scratch was not an option, because it would have required too much time and it was not clear whether we would have been really more successful than others. Instead we picked the solution which provided for all(!) of our essential wishes a good or at least reasonable solution. The RedHat Package Manager (RPM) version 4 is not a perfect solution, but even with its drawbacks and pitfalls it fulfills the fundemental needs of OpenPKG.
I dont know about you but that doesnt really inspire a lot of confidence in me. Essentially this reads to me like they wanted to quickly extend an inferior package management system. *shrug*
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You're right. When the goal of your hardware is to be robust and scaleable would you really trust the new kid on the block with it? AMD makes fine products but the maturity level just isnt there in the hammer line, it hasnt been proven in any environment let alone one which demands as much as sun's market does.
Did you just cite resale value as a buying factor of an industry with the quickest rate of obsolete technology?!
"It's like netbios except different!"
sidewalk denial of service attack just sounds cool.
Just go about your business and when things seem to be too much to take, blurt out "Serenity now!" at the top of your lungs.
But where will that leave homeboys in outer space?!
Agreed. We're disproportionaly favoring cpu when the real gains would be seen in high speed interconnects especially with storage devices. Most of my cpu's time is spent waiting for instructions and even when sent could stand to recieve them both faster and in greater numbers.
They've already done it, it's called linux.
I'm a dialup user, and I run exim from my debian machine to send mail. Of course I'm rbl'd from sf lists which makes a ton of sense. Feh. I can understand wanting to lock things down but there's no point in being a nazi about it. This isnt really related directly to spam but it's under the same umbrella.
Sacrifice is a good example of an rts that broke out of the niche mold of traditional c&c/starcraft type rts's. It still maintains a unique rts feel though, along with an rpg and open ending element thrown in. It was somewhat overlooked when it came out but I think it was a pretty groundbreaking game. Resource mangement was downplayed but still there the focus was more on action and the unit behavior reminds me of shogun: total war. The cinematics and graphics were much advanced as well compared to other rts's.
I agree with that stance more than any other, support open standards and the rest will fall into place. Interoperability in the long run will be governed by how well open standards are supported. Well designed, well planned, more secure openly built upon systems.
My only feature request would be replication facilities.
Without the ability to separate the texturing from the geometry, you can't clip any geometry in a general way (not even mentioning the fact that clipping a curve along anything but an isoparm will raise it's order), and you either live with texel density varying wildly and degenerating to points, or you have texture seams between every change in density. No ability to rotate a texture on a surface, project a texture across multiple surfaces, etc. You can't replace the generality if a triangle with primitives like that.
Hopefully it can be translated into english. Before my head explodes...
I agree with this, as debian is not a corporately controled entity there is no incentive for them to make money, only to create a distro people wish to use. dpkg is a mature solution though it could be better in many ways just as rpm. Either way they'll have to pry my deb's from my cold dead fingers or demonstrate that rpm has come at least as far as deb's and apt.
Word has it (if you install grub as an option) redhat 7.2 sports a nice looking background image in the os selection screen. But I'm a debian user so I wouldnt know. (tee hee)
Wouldnt it be cool if lego made actual tools that werent marketed towards kids. Such that they would be designed to do things of this nature, all purpose reusable engineering kits. Not that I'm too cool for lego's or anything...
Or just create your own deb mirror for your network and have 350 machines sync to it auto-magically and use a pilot machine to test updates. Then all you have to do is manage your master mirror since all it's subordinates would be identical, or nearly identical in theory. Export current package information with various permutations of dpkg and mangle it so it looks pretty on the intranet. Granted this is probably more difficult than paying redhat to do it for you but in the long run it's probably more cost effective. Wasn't progeny supposed to be doing something along these lines with NOW (network of workstations)?
Microsoft needs more competitive products? Who are they competing with again?
Exactly. It's the choice of being given $1000 today or $1 a day for the rest of your life. Though the single dollar may be less attractive now but in the end it's the smarter choice.
Light up all the dark fiber in the US, problem solved... for a while. Seriously though imagine all the cool technology that would come out of having tons and tons of bandwidth.
it's different in q3a though the rail actually takes skill in timing and aim to use so those who are good at it deserve their "rail whore" titles. Picking a guy off from across the map in UT is trivial where as it's not so easy in q3 probably due to dynamics in aiming. UT lets you get on top of the guy, quake will too but it becomes more difficult to aim as zoom increases. Most people I know use only minor zoom increments in quake 3 for this reason.
If it's the standard because it's simply widely in use, sort of like that other operating system thats the poorest of reasons. I really dont want to get into why the lsb chose rpm though. All I know is we have a chance to do things the right way this time, if that means re-inventing the wheel ten times I'd be happy to wait if when it's finished it's the best wheel to date. There's nothing like the disatisfaction of knowing you did something half-assed. I can understand if the skill level of those creating the software is a limiting factor to the quality of the end product but I get the distinct impression that these guys know what they're doing.
I dont know about you but that doesnt really inspire a lot of confidence in me. Essentially this reads to me like they wanted to quickly extend an inferior package management system. *shrug*
I still consider blizzard in an envyable position of not having bombed with a single title. They always deliver even if it takes a while.
Slash is starting to turn into a game of d&d. Before you know it I'll have a 'character alignment' based on how people percieve me.